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Yes it's cheap, even with printing expenses. But what if you factor in employee time over all employees?

- walking to the printer, then waiting (sometimes in line) for the document to be printed

- discovering that the document did not print and mysteriously disappeared in the print queue, walking back to seat, and send new print request, then go back to printer

- walking to a different floor when the printer is broken or stuck (happens quite a lot with busyly-used printers)

- if you find that something is wrong with the document, you can start the process over again

OK, most of these are merely annoyances that don't cost a lot of time. But you wouldn't hear me complain if all paper and printers were forbidden and removed :)



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